Word: relentlessness
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Stanford's relentless attack finally caught Harvard's defense off-guard as Cardinal senior Luke Rust scored off a cross from sophomore Roger Levesque in the 72nd minute...
...last three quarters we effectively shut down MIT's top threats," said sophomore driver Mike Masterson. "On the offensive side, we wore them down with relentless counterattacks...
That may not be saying much. If you consider what we know now about the presidents who served from January, 1961 to August, 1974 (John Kennedy's Addison's disease and Dr. Feelgood drugs and relentless risky sex; Lyndon Johnson's grandiosity and paranoia, and Richard Nixon's blackly coiled weirdness) - why you have to wonder how the Republic survived...
...Clinton. Of what other president could you say that after two full terms (and relentless scandal - impeachment even!), he looks fresher, livelier, than he did when he came into office? Clinton is a phenomenon - of resilience, of survival, of some life force (either heroic or sleeplessly cunning) that causes his admirers to marvel and his moralist critics to foam at the mouth...
...hair and radical talk, the locals might have overlooked the Dumas's reincarnation. They have survived far worse, particularly the collapse of mining. More than 100,000 people once lived in this city (current pop. 35,000), and it acquired two nicknames: "the Richest Hill on Earth" (the relentless digging of Butte's copper turned it into the nation's largest Superfund site) and "the Perch of the Devil." It was where miners could rise from the underground to, as local booster Donal Moylan puts it, "fight, f___ and drink...